1951 D Large Cent Error?

Tilting at the willful ignorance windmill! Good luck.

 

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At this point you only think you know everything.
@rascal your ignore button is gonna bite you in the backside.

 

Yes I already know about how scales work. even some normal wheat back cents only weigh 2.70 to 3.1 just try and weigh a couple if you can find someone to get a few from and you can see I'm telling the truth so enough of your lecturing already .

 

Very cool

 

I hope you will stop posting false information. You never get it correct and folks here know that. Take a step back and learn from what has been posted.

 

Hey! you and a few others needs to stop acting like you own this CT website and stop trying to ruin others threads with all the nonsense. Are you really this bored or what is your problem ? I will write whatever I want to on here. You need to stop acting like I am trying to hurt someone and take a deep breath and calm down. A lot of folks are watching and they know who tells the truth.

 

No, we are not gonna stop. You have been corrected atleast 4 times early in this thread for posting incorrect or misleading information. This forum is for newbies and experienced to come and learn. If you are posting false or misleading info you will be corrected. That goes for all posters not just you. It is what you do with the learning experience that matters.
So, please stop thinking you know everything, this forum will not let you mislead anyone. If you can't handle that, then try going to a different forum. Gauranteed you will be shut down even quicker than here.
The difference here? Is we want you to learn. We have all been corrected here @rascal it is not just you!

 

That's a nice example of a 'machined'
reverse cent.

An excellent piece to use to study the
Minting Process - graduation is when
the OP realizes his coin has been
damaged/altered well after it left the Mint.

 

I did a little experiment today to just see how it would come out. I weighed a nice looking circulated wheat back cent and it was 3.1 g . my digital scales weigh by the .1 g.
I ground part of the reverse side off and the coin was deeper in the center so some of the letters could still be seen in the center of the coin. I suppose the center of the coin was deeper because coin dies are a little cone shaped. I put the coin back on the scale and it was 2.8 so I had removed .3g So I found out that removing metal from a coin will change it's weight . The coin I experimented with was destroyed by me.

 

Excellent experiment. This is with a scale that measures to 0.1 g. Now weigh the same cent on a a scale that measures to 0.5 g increments. The first weighing would have been 3.0 (since 3.1 is closer to 3.0 than to 3.5) the second weighing would have been 3.0 (since 2.8 is closer to 3.0 than it is to 2.5).

 

When I did the experiment I was just trying to see if removing some of the cents copper would change my scales reading and it did. I believe if I had removed all of the sunken in center to remove the letters that was still visible and made the center part come up level with the rest the weight may have went down to somewhere around 2.5 I would like to see someone else try this experiment to see what they find out. I almost could not believe how much the center part of the reverse side of that wheat back cent was sunken in.

 

I would do it, but it just seems like too much trouble

 

Hey! young man, folks from Ky. like you and me are not supposed to be lazy. It may just be our age is catching up with us. This is supposed to be our golden years , I don't see anything so golden about it. At least I learned something from doing my experiment. I didn't realize that the center of coins was sunken in so much until I started working on the reverse side of the cent . I took near a third of the thickness off the cent and the N of ONE and the N of Cent plus 4 or 5 of the smaller letters from United States of America was still visible in the center of the coin.

 

You never agree with anyone. Why is that. You drive me nuts

 

Do you even own coins. Please show us some of your finds. Let’s see one of those 100’s of 2005 nickels. Then I might as well as others Believe you for a change. I’m serious

 

Because when I see that others have it right on a thread I don't have a reason to reply to the thread. CT members should never shoot some coins down that are about impossible to identify from just looking at photos. I think it would be best to just tell the OP'S to get a expert to take a in hand look unless it is a easy to identify damaged coin or a easy to confirm error coin.

 

I can't believe you would say this . I was going to give you a few each of my modern variety coins I found by myself but forget it now. For the modern coins that I have I like the 2005P 5 cent clashed die coins that I nicknamed the peeing bison and the ultra detached leg bison coins that were struck with the same die. the die pair was severe clashed then abraided and created the detached leg bisons.No joke it has been confirmed by BJ Neff and me .

 

Next time use an orbital sander. Won't take so much of the rim.

 

And that was still only 0.3 g. Interesting, still reminds me of the AGE Doug carried for years in his pocket until it really looked worn and there was minimal weight loss.

 

Hey. That’s you choice. Wasn’t trying to be nasty. But your so hard to read. Every time your on. You confuse me. I see your points. But as you say. You only reply to correct a wrong. Maybe that’s why we read you wrong. I speak for myself only. Sorry to upset you